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Charles S. 'Spense' Browning Decatur, AL QCWA # 9284 Chapter: 88 |
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Funeral for Charles Spenser Browning Sr., 85, of Decatur will be Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Central Baptist Church with the Rev. Rob Jackson officiating and Roselawn Funeral Home directing.
Masonic rites will be held at interment at Roselawn Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home, and Sunday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church.
Mr. Browning, who died Friday, Aug. 19, 2005, at Decatur General Hospital, was born Jan. 12, 1920, in Springfield, Tenn., to James Wesley Browning and Ida Mae Hunley Browning. After attending Tennessee Tech University, with a major in chemical engineering, he worked at the State of Tennessee Highway Department and the Nashville Bridge Co., where he helped build sub chasers during World War II, and later for Victor Chemical Co. In 1952, he came to Chemstrand, where he registered several patents, and finished his career as an Instrumentation Sales Engineer.
He was founding communications director of the Morgan County Civil Defense, and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Alabama Management Council. He taught electronics at Tennessee Valley Technical School, now known as Calhoun Community College.
In 1954, Mr. Browning was co-founder of Decatur Amateur Radio Club, and trained and tested young people to become Ham Radio operators. Through this, he touched many lives. He was also president of Decatur Pony League Baseball Association.
Mr. Browning was a 53-year member of Central Baptist Church, where he established a television ministry, and a 60-year member of John B. Garrett Masonic Lodge No. 711 in Nashville.
Mr. Browning was preceded in death by his wife, Edith Simmons Browning, two brothers, Dexter and Russell Browning, and sister, Ruth Martin.
Survivors include one daughter, Pamela Edwards and husband Jeff of Franklin, Tenn.; one son, Charles Spenser Browning Jr. and wife Ginnie of Decatur; four grandchildren, Susan Edwards Mitchell and husband Rob, of Mobile, and Brandon Browning and wife Diana, Mark Edwards and wife Cathy, and Kelly Browning Putman and husband Jason, all of Birmingham; great-grandchildren, Patton and Braune Browning, MacKensie and Garrison Mitchell, Jamie and Brady Edwards, and Anna Grace, Michael and Andrew Putman; four nieces; and four nephews.
Pallbearers will be Brandon Browning, Mark Edwards, Rob Mitchell, Jason Putman, Gary Head and Scott Safford.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of Decatur Amateur Radio Club and members of Willie Pendacost Sunday school class.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, Hospice of the Valley or Central Baptist Church.